When CAG nucleotide triplets repeat excessively in a gene called huntingtin, a devastating and currently untreatable neurodegenerative “repeat expansion disorder” arises called Huntington’s Disease ...

Repeat expansion disorders, which are responsible for more than 40 neurological diseases, may be more common than clinical data would suggest. Epidemiological studies had estimated that REDs affect ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is caused by the CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion in exon 1 of the huntingtin (HTT) gene, leading to polyglutamine-expanded stretch of mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein.

Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) is a neuromuscular/neurodegenerative disease caused by the expansion of CGG repeats in the 5′ untranslated region ...

For the most part, modern medicine is no match for neurodegenerative diseases. But with advances in the study of genetics, the ability of scientists to get a molecular "handle" on such mysterious ...